AI Job Atlas
AI & jobs · Sector

Construction

10%
of this sector’s 300M jobs worldwide are exposed to generative AI, about 29.1M people.
MODELAll sectors: 21%

Key numbers

Jobs worldwideILO
300M
8.4% of all jobs
Exposed workersMODEL
29.1M
3.8% of all exposed
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
1.3%
3.8M people
Women’s shareILO
7%
of the sector’s jobs

By income level

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In most sectors exposure rises with income, because more of the sector’s jobs are clerical, technical or professional.

High income 15%
Upper-middle income 9%
Lower-middle income 8%
Low income 7%

Most exposed

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Share of the sector’s jobs exposed.

1Taiwan 30% 2Singapore 25% 3Luxembourg 21% 4Japan 19% 5New Zealand 19% 6Oman 19% 7Netherlands 18% 8Switzerland 18% 9Montenegro 17% 10Norway 17%

Most exposed workers

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1India 6.6M 2China 5.4M 3United States 2.1M 4Japan 924K 5Indonesia 840K 6Brazil 742K 7Philippines 648K 8Russian Federation 647K 9Pakistan 579K 10Vietnam 454K

Biggest employer (share of jobs)

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1Qatar 30.9% 2Oman 25.1% 3Bahrain 24.2% 4Algeria 18.7% 5Iraq 17.2% 6United Arab Emirates 16.7% 7Kuwait 15.1% 8Nepal 14.6% 9Egypt 14.5% 10Iran 14.5%

Other sectors

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Finance 56% ICT & software 44% Education 44% Public admin 43% Health & care 41% Business services 36% Retail & wholesale 29% Utilities 26% Hospitality 23% Other services 22% Transport & logistics 19% Manufacturing 15% Mining 13% Agriculture 7%

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